“Universal ghetto life, holla black you know it well”

Black and Yellow, written by Wiz Khalifa, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen
Studio Albums, Rolling Papers (2011)

Misattributed
Source: Margaret Mead, quoted in "Growing Old in America: An Introduction with Margaret Mead" by Grace Hechinger, Family Circle (1977-07-26), p. 27.

Attributed to Mead in Mead Childhood Education Vol. 54 (1977) by Association for Childhood Education International, p. 126
1970s

TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997) http://web.archive.org/web/20000619011644/http://www.time.com/time/gates/gates2.html <br class="br">1990s

2000s
Context: No matter who you are, engaging in the quest to discover where and how things began tends to induce emotional fervor—as if knowing the beginning bestows upon you some form of fellowship with, or perhaps governance over, all that comes later. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

To a neighbor (1856), as quoted in A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant https://books.google.com/books?id=0G1LAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA155&amp;dq=%22may+not+cover+a+true+heart+as+well+as+a%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=uZngVIKtGsicNqz1gYgB&amp;ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false (1868), by Albert Deane Richardson, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, p. 155. According to some other sources, he had also used this phrase in a letter to Robert E. Lee (General of the Confederacy). <br class="br">1850s

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The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest

Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began

he said. “It’s a warning. It’s nature’s way of telling us what a bad idea it is to rely too much on one plant.”
Source: Windswept (2015), Chapter 22 (p. 287)